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December 9, 2025
SLB to provide $60,000 grants to students in five hardest-hit Melissa parishes
The Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) has announced that students attending schools in Westmoreland, St James, Hanover, St Elizabeth, and Trelawny will each receive a $60,000 grant under a new…
December 9, 2025
Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility to launch micro insurance in Jamaica amid Hurricane Melissa
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) on Wednesday said that it will launch a new initiative in Jamaica this week in the wake of the disaster…
December 9, 2025
60,000 NWC customers in western Jamaica still without water
Some 60,000 customers of the National Water Commission (NWC) in western Jamaica are still without piped water more than a month after the passage of Hurricane Melissa. Director General of the Office…
December 9, 2025
Massive power outage hits Cuba’s western region after transmission line fails
HAVANA (AP) — A blackout hit Havana and the rest of the western half of Cuba on Wednesday, leaving millions of people without power on an island struggling with chronic outages blamed on a crumbling…
December 9, 2025
Gas prices down $0.25
Motorists will pay less for gas come Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move down by $0.25 to sell for $155.17 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go down by $0.25…
December 9, 2025
More delays for Windalco 2019 Rio Cobre fish kill trial
The case against bauxite mining company Windalco, which is before the St Catherine Parish Court over a 2019 fish kill in the Rio Cobre, continues to face delays. The trial resumed today in court…
December 9, 2025
Melissa donation and distribution tracking system must be fully transparent, says PNP
The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) says greater accountability is needed in the distribution of hurricane relief aid and called for the Government to ensure that its planned tracking system…
December 9, 2025
Trailblazer Ena Collymore-Woodstock dies at 108
Trailblazer Ena Collymore-Woodstock, who was Jamaica’s first woman resident magistrate, now called parish judge, and a World War II veteran, has died. Collymore-Woodstock passed away on Tuesday at…
December 9, 2025
Parliament approves suspension of fiscal rules to allow for Hurricane Melissa spending
A motion to suspend the fiscal rules to allow for additional spending towards Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts was on Tuesday scrapped and then re-tabled after a senior opposition lawmaker pointed…